South Korean Scientists Clone First Dog
By UsaydSouth Korea’s pioneering stem cell scientist has cloned a dog, smashing another biological barrier and reigniting a fierce ethical debate — while producing a perky, lovable puppy.
Here we go again!
Yep another ethically debatable topic which has been thrown around the world with the first cloned animal (i think), was that ‘Dolly’. Okay thats wrong I just found this:
Dolly the sheep may have been the world’s most famous clone, but she was not the first. Cloning creates a genetically identical copy of an animal or plant. Many animals - including frogs, mice, sheep, and cows - had been cloned before Dolly. Plants are often cloned - when you take a cutting, you are producing a clone. Human identical twins are also clones.
Anyways leaving that aside, the question is - Is animal cloning okay, especially as it is leading towards the idea of Human Cloning! Well my opinion is my opinion but its somthing to think about…
The researchers, led by Hwang Woo-suk, insist they cloned an Afghan hound, a resplendent supermodel in a world of mutts, only to help investigate human disease, including the possibility of cloning stem cells for treatment purposes.
But others immediately renewed calls for a global ban on human reproductive cloning before the technology moves any farther.
"Successful cloning of an increasing number of species confirms the general impression that it would be possible to clone any mammalian species, including humans," said Ian Wilmut, a reproductive biologist at the University of Edinburgh who produced the first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, from an adult cell nearly a decade ago.